Secondary Faculty
Eleni Linos, MD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Cancer prevention, melanoma, basal and squamous cell skin cancer, geriatric dermatology
Courtney Lyles, PhD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Implementation Science
- Dr. Lyles’ research strives to design, evaluate, and disseminate digital health solutions that work for all patients, particularly the most vulnerable. Her work investigates the most effective ways to improve digital health design and increase digital access and skills by leveraging implementation science and population health approaches. She leads the DEB Digital Health Initiative and is a co-PI of the UCSF Population Health Data Initiative.
Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Implementation Science
- Infectious Disease
- Social Epidemiology
- reducing healthcare disparities among racially diverse populations with severe mental illness, advancement of women and minorities within medicine
Annette Molinaro, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Statistical genetics and computational biology, including prediction, survival analysis and classification with additional curiosities in cancer epidemiology and in the estimation of absolute risk in stratified case-cohort studies
Saam Morshed, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Orthopaedics, trauma, post-traumatic arthritis
Anobel Y. Odisho, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- development, implementation, and evaluation of digital health solutions and integrating these solutions into clinical workflows with decision support systems to improve patient care.
Meyeon Park, MD, MAS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- patient-oriented research about cardiovascular risk, genetic predisposition, and lifestyle factors in kidney disease
Emily Perito, MD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- pediatric liver transplantation, long-term outcomes after liver transplantation, chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic insufficiency, metabolic liver disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, pediatric gastroenterology
Shabnam Peyvandi, MD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Social Epidemiology
- Neonatal health
Kathryn Phillips, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Health services research, health economics, policy analysis, personalized/precision medicine
Patrick Phillips, PhD, MS, MA
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Infectious Disease
- Tuberculosis, clinical trial design, clinical trials, adaptive trial designs, trials methodology
Urmimala Sarkar, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Implementation Science
- Social Epidemiology
- Health equity, patient safety, implementation science, digital health, social media, cancer survivorship, and health information technology
George Sawaya, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Implementation Science
- cancer screening with particular interest in patient-centered and economic effects of various screening strategies
Anne Schafer, MD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Osteoporosis and bone metabolism, the relationships between bone, fat, and glucose metabolism, including the effects of obesity and diabetes on bone, and the skeletal regulation of energy metabolism, effects of bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery) on calcium metabolism and skeletal health
Mark Seielstad, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- The interface of genetic epidemiology and population/anthropological genetics
Hilary Seligman, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Food insecurity, hunger, health disparities, diabetes, obesity, nutrition, nutrition policy
Michael Shlipak, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Causes and consequences of age-related kidney disease
Sean Thomas, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Regulation of gene expression, bioinformatics, genomics, computational biology, epigenetics, chromatin structure, stem cell differentiation, organismal development
Judith Walsh-Cassidy, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Aging
Samuel L. Washington III, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Social Epidemiology
- healthcare disparities, outcomes research, prostate cancer, bladder cancer
Rachel Whitmer, PhD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Aging, Epidemiology, Lifecourse, Dementia, Brain Health, Disparities, Diabetes Mellitus, Alzheimer's Disease, Cognition, Population Health, Electronic Medical Records, Cohort Studies, Traumatic Brain Injury, Minority Aging, Diverse Communities, Type 1 Diabetes, Glycemic Control, Metabolic Risk Factors, Field Research
Mary Whooley, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Implementation Science
- Clinical informatics, Big Data, depression screening, cardiovascular outcomes, cardiac rehabilitation
Kristine Yaffe, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Lifecourse
- epidemiology of dementia and cognitive aging, modifiable risk factors for dementia, dementia prevention trials